Director’s debut is perfect, now she’s changing it
One of Canberra’s best-known stage performers, Janie Lawson, is about to make her directorial debut with the boutique musical I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change, reports arts editor HELEN MUSA.
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At the age of 36, Creswick feels he is facing middle age and, just as he did with his fatherhood show, he's been out interviewing people, this time a carefully selected group of senior artists, reports arts editor HELEN MUSA.
The revival of Graeme Murphy’s exquisite staging of Franz Lehár’s 120-year-old operetta, The Merry Widow, at the Sydney Opera House powerfully demonstrates why it was destined to become an audience favourite, reviews BILL STEPHENS.
A post-covid 50th birthday party conversation about middle age and menopause was the catalyst behind the musical Middle Raged, directed by Priscilla Jackman, reviews SAMARA PURNELL.
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Middle-raged, Queenie’s ready to sing about it
Middle Raged – A Musical Meltdown, about to premiere at The Playhouse, is the brainchild of two former Canberrans, performer Queenie van de Zandt and writer-producer Tiffany Noack, reports arts editor HELEN MUSA.
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Major theatre show axed amid cost pressures
The Broadway adaptation of Beetlejuice has been axed midway through an Australian tour with rising costs to blame.
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Inventive production of a musical classic
"Audiences never seem to tire of the epic scale of its uplifting story nor of the glorious score in which every song is a classic." BILL STEPHENS reviews the Queanbeyan Players' new production of Les Miserables.
“No grand sets, no spectacle, just the truth behind the fairytales,” director Jarrad West promises of their “unplugged” version of Sondheim’s Into the Woods, reports HELEN MUSA.
The show Promise and Promiscuity, described by the Irish Times as “a posthumous collaboration with Jane Austen”, is the brainchild of actor Penny Ashton, reports HELEN MUSA.
Disney has cut parts from its orchestra and replaced them with synthesised keyboard technology, leaving local musicians out of a job.
"This was a classy, well-paced, high-energy show highlighted by outstanding dancing from a young, multi-talented cast." IAN McLEAN reviews Footloose.
Footloose: The Musical returns to Canberra in a new production – bigger, bolder and more explosive than ever before – at the Royal Theatre, May 8-10.
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"It is the casting of the legendary Nancye Hayes as the Dowager Empress, a role that could have been written for her, that makes this production one not to be missed." BILL STEPHENS reviews Anastasia, playing at the Sydney Lyric Theatre.
"This quality, high-energy, fun and funny production of boy-band bangers and girl power was well deserving of the rowdy wolf whistles and enthusiastic standing ovation it received." SAMARA PURNELL's been to see & Juliet.
When she hooks up by phone to Sabrina Live! star Nakita Clarke at home in the eastern suburbs of Sydney, HELEN MUSA gets more than she bargained for.
What if Juliet didn’t die? What if she lived, and went on to have a life of her own? They're the questions posed in & Juliet, a joyous theatrical remix of Shakespeare’s best-known love story of star-crossed lovers, reports HELEN MUSA.
"It's a night of theatre that will make you laugh until your cheeks ache." BILL STEPHENS reviews The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, a show from the Canberra Philharmonic Society.
"If you’re looking for a special treat to celebrate the end-of-holidays, then this production of Cinderella is highly recommended," writes reviewer BILL STEPHENS.
If the art of pantomime is dead, that’s more than jazz singer and music director Leisa Keen knows, and she’s the mover and shaker behind a new Cinderella panto at The Q.
